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|author= Arabella Kurtz and J M Coetzee
|title= The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
|rating= 5
|genre= Popular Science
|summary= We live by stories. Novelists weave tales that may or may not reflect reality, and that we accept as their job: to create fictions with intriguing character plots that draw in, surprise and touch the reader is at the core of their job description. But story telling goes beyond profession: everyone, writer or not, sometimes more consciously, sometimes less, creates their own history, selects memories that they retain, repress others, and constantly weave together a story of who we are, a tale of identity.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099598221</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lisa Woollett
|summary=''Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do''. Apparently that's advice to budding journalists and writers, and I do try to follow the English translation of it, if not completely successfully. Someone who seems to have no trouble whatsoever in agreeing with the dictum is Roberto Trotta. This book is his survey of current astrophysics and cosmological science, but one that has to convey everything it intends to by using only the most common thousand words of the English language. So there is no Big Bang as such, planets have to be called Crazy Stars – and it's soon evident you can't even describe the book with the word thousand either.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0465044719</amazonuk>
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